Strong SocialSensor participation in SNOW workshop with 1 keynote talk, 3 position papers and 3 SNOW challenge entries

on 31 March 2014.

cropped-header2 SocialSensor is happy to announce its strong participation in this year's SNOW Workshop: the Second Workshop on Social News on the Web @WWW '14 taking place in Seoul, Korea on April, 8th with a keynote talk from Yahoo Lab's Alejandro Jaimes:

[11:00-12:00] KEYNOTE TALK:Alejandro Jaimes,“Data Driven Journalism: From Agenda Setting to News Responses- How Can We Best Leverage Big Data?”, Yahoo Labs.

Three position paper's from CERTH, City University, ATC and Deutsche Welle

[12:05-12:30] Christina Boididou, Symeon Papadopoulos, Yiannis Kompatsiaris, Steve Schifferes and Nic Newman.“Challenges of Computational Verification in Social Multimedia”[full paper]

[9:25-9:45] Eva Jaho, Efstratios Tzoannos, Aris Papadopoulos and Nikos Sarris.“Alethiometer: a framework for assessing trustworthiness and content validity in social media“[position paper]

[10:10-10:30] Jochen Spangenberg and Nicolaus Heise.“News from the Crowd: Grassroots and Collaborative Journalism in the Digital Age”[position paper]

And three SNOW challenge entries from Robert Gordon Univeristy, Alcatel and CERTH:

[15:20-15:30] Carlos Martin-Dancausa and Ayse Göker. “Real-time topic detection with bursty n-grams”[challenge paper]

[17:00-17:10] Gerard Burnside, Dimitrios Milioris and Philippe Jacquet.“One Day in Twitter: Topic Detection Via Joint Complexity”[challenge paper]

[17:10-17:20] Georgios Petkos, Symeon Papadopoulos and Yiannis Kompatsiaris. “Two-level message clustering for topic detection in Twitter” [challenge paper]

For more information on the workshop click here: http://www.snow-workshop.org/2014/?page_id=23